WILLING TO COMPETE FOR YOUR PLACE
Jordi Alba makes it clear what he thinks about the arrival of another full-back
Published:24/07/2022 - 13:02h
Updated:24/07/2022 - 13:02h
Although Barça is still looking for a replacement for the left back, Jordi Alba has not been concerned about it. He knows that he can compete and maintains that the signings are helpful for the team
To his advanced age, Jordi Alba is conscious that it finds in the final stretch of his career like active footballer. Meanwhile, the directive of the FC Barcelona has been in research of a player of his profile that can fungir like his spare, arriving to sopesar names like the one of Marcos Alonso or the already descartada option of Nicolás Tagliafico.
Of face to the season 2022-23, the defender is to the so much that it will not be easy to keep the regularity of previous years, especially in front of the possible arrival of the one who would be his replacement: "Nowadays any player can paint you the face and remove you the place. I assume it as I think that have to assume it all. If it comes another player in left band, perfect".
Nevertheless, it admits that the signings do him well to a club that comes to live a difficult season in which it was not possible to raise any trophy: "The signings are very good and of big quality, reinforce us a lot of. What had already was very good, but the incorporations that have done are very good. Have a big competition. We are safe that we will do it very well".
Of which already have concretised up to now, Alba has stood out the one of Robert Lewandowski, the one who has arrived from the Bayern of Munich and could turn into the main offensive reference in the eleven of Xavi Hernández: "For us it is a pride that was here. Has many win to follow competing and winning. When it adapt to our game, goes to mark goals".
The whistles to Hammered
Likewise, the defence has referred to the rejection that continues suffering Gerard Hammered by part of the fans, although it sustains that it does not affect him: "To him I do not think that they concern him a lot, already we know it. Has zero pressure to the hour to play, is to admire. I think that it motivates him a lot that him piten. Already it carries long with these boos, but do not think that remove him the dream. And this is to admire by a player of his experience and with his know be. It does not go him to change at all what has happened today".
